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An Analysis of the Challenges and Possible Solutions for Dog Bite Injury Surveillance
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Injuries from dog bites affect approximately 4.7 million Americans per year, causing significant societal impact. Currently dog bites are the third leading cause of homeowner insurance claims, and are estimated to cost the insurance industry $… read more -
An Analysis of the Health Hazards Posed by a Surge of Unaccompanied Alien Children to the Lower Rio Grande Valley Border
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Unaccompanied alien children (UAC) are undocumented migrant children who come to the United States unaccompanied by a parent or guardian. The number apprehended UACs originating from the Central America counties of El Salvador, Guatemala, and… read more -
An Analysis of the International and Domestic Health Hazards Posed by the 2014 West African Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak
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An epidemic of ebolavirus in West Africa, which was first identified in March 2014, is now the largest Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak on record. On 8 August 2014, the WHO declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a Public Health Emergency of… read more -
An Early Warning Influenza Model using Alberta RealTime Syndromic Data (ARTSSN)
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Standardized electronic pre-diagnostic information is routinely collected in Alberta, Canada. ARTSSN is an automated real-time surveillance data repository able to rapidly refresh data that include school absenteeism information, calls about health… read more -
An Ecological Analysis of the Impact of Temperature Inversion on Emergency Department Visits for Respiratory Syndromes and Subsyndromes using BioSense 2.0 Frontend Data
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During the winter months, Utah experiences a temperature inversion which traps pollutants, such as fine particle pollution (PM 2.5), in the Salt Lake Valley. A previous study determined the impact of inversion on ED visits for asthma, however… read more -
NYC Onboarding Presentation
Content Type: Presentation Slides
This NYC DOHMH presentation details the process for onboarding data into BioSense for the NYC hospitals for certification. -
CDC Zika Virus Presentation
Content Type: Presentation Slides
This presentation gives an overview of Zika. Topics include the history of the disease, clinical symptoms and treatment, and surveillance of human cases and the mosquitos that spread the virus. read more -
Notes on MU Stage 3 NPRM Informatics
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Notes on Meaningful Use stage 3 Notice of Public Rule Making, provided by Bryant Thomas Karras